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Do you like Wolf for a boy?

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mrsruffallo · 09/03/2009 13:50

A serious question- is silly, bold or cool?

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fuzzywuzzy · 09/03/2009 22:06

It's a pretty common German name, I know two Wolf's one is Wolfgang and the other just plain Wolf. I certainly never forget his name!

angrypixie · 09/03/2009 22:05

You are an angel, never a bad word about a child but yet willing to write off a complete stranger as a 'dreadful teacher' and 'in the wrong job' on the basis of a single comment. Luckily I am quite sure of myself. I am a great teacher and my human frailties do not detract from that.

Let's not hijack this thread any further it must be very dull for everyone else.

Good night, and sweet dreams

SobranieCocktail · 09/03/2009 21:56

Do you know what - I can hand on heart say that I have never had a bad word to say about a child. Maybe I'm in the wrong job. Or maybe you are!

angrypixie · 09/03/2009 21:53

Glad to hear you never have a bad word to say about a child to another Mum/friend/dp. You really are a paragon of virtue, or perhaps I should be glad that you will tell Wolf to his face that his name is daft. Teacher's aren't angels, no different from anyone else on this thread who think it's bonkers.

SobranieCocktail · 09/03/2009 21:48

Oh, only behind their back? Well that's fine then.

angrypixie · 09/03/2009 21:46

'one of those dreadful teachers'???

No, just a human being - who spends a lot of their life using the name you decide upon for your child. We are not super human and we snigger at dreadful names obviously not in front of a child.

SobranieCocktail · 09/03/2009 21:33

angrypixie - oh christ, are you another one of those dreadful teachers who thinks it's acceptable to snigger about and mock your pupils' names?

Meglet · 09/03/2009 21:01

It would be a fun middle name, but not for a first name.

Mintyy · 09/03/2009 21:01

Don't like it either. Wolfie would be ok, as tribute to Citizen Smith.

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MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 09/03/2009 21:00

I live in the sort of achingly metropolitan area that features in cutting-edge novels, yet still I know that there would be a barely-suppressed titter when little Wolf joins the anarcho-syndicalist playgroup.

Now, Wulfric and Athelstan are fab names. Wish we'd called dd Berengaria.

angrypixie · 09/03/2009 20:57

I've taught a few children with daft names in my time but Wolf????

I'll try it out for you in the staffroom tomorrow.

Bakersman · 09/03/2009 20:56

No really don't like it. Sorry to be blunt.

cat64 · 09/03/2009 20:54

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edam · 09/03/2009 20:52

I used to know a lad from Huddersfield called Zoltan. Sounded very funny indeed in a broad Yorkshire accent: 'coom 'ere, ower Zoltan'.

His parents were originally from Hungary so it was a very respectable name, just sounded odd the first time you heard it. Especially on a spotty teenager.

Mspontipine · 09/03/2009 20:50

Foxie!!

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frazzledoldbag · 09/03/2009 20:09

Troglodyte is one of my favorite words. So wonderfully descriptive. Good point, Sobranie

fruitbeard · 09/03/2009 20:07

My cousin decided, at the age of 29, that he would only answer to the name of Wolf.

He's now 44 and still single...

So although I do like Wolfgang as a name, I can't think of someone called Wolf without thinking of my weirdy cousin (whose real name is Neil)!

SobranieCocktail · 09/03/2009 20:03

seeker - I think it probably depends largely on whether you live in an area full of narrow-minded, provincial troglodytes, or somewhere a bit more metropolitan.

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mrsruffallo · 09/03/2009 18:34

LOL at Peachy

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seeker · 09/03/2009 18:31

But aren't you given at least a little pause by how many people thing that it will make life difficult for your little boy?

MsBeauregarde · 09/03/2009 18:28

I don't hate it, but it wouldn't suit my mummy's leg-hugger shy boy!!

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 09/03/2009 18:28

Wolfgang is a perfectly respectable German name. Wolf is an invitation to ridicule.

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mrsruffallo · 09/03/2009 18:27

Would not rule out Wolfgang-I love it!
I am happy that so many of you recognise its coolness!

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Peachy · 09/03/2009 18:26

Very odd choice IMO. No. Indeed I would be prepared to beg no. Normally I say its your choice.... but no.

Middle name of Wolfgang and Wolfie as nickname OTOH I like,, funny huh?